If you want, you can get full details at the link above. I will start sending communication from CRASHR very soon, meaning in a few days. Every single communication will provide an opportunity to opt out, but you can do so pre-emptively by emailing me at thelookingspoon at gmail dot com and providing the address you want me to remove.

It should be safe to say at this point that everyone who followed this blog knows it effectively ended on May 1st. There was a few hundred of you subscribed to updates to the TLS RSS feed. I'm creating this post and counting on those subscribers receiving it in their inbox.

As I mentioned in my final post (this one doesn't count) I am continuing to work and create new pieces, but I'm doing it under a new brand I'm developing. I have been gradually and quietly building up my latest project, CRASHR.me, which is geared less toward graphics that provide commentary on the the meme/controversy du jour and more toward messaging with longer or timeless shelf-life and a celebration of patriotism in general.

Since you all were interested in the latest from TLS I am running on the hopeful assumption that you will be interested in what's going on with CRASHR. As such, I am migrating the email list from TLS to another email service that will be handling CRASHR. The key difference here will be that CRASHR will send updates less frequently (every 1-2 weeks) as opposed to the daily emails coming from TLS.

If you do not wish to receive emails from CRASHR and want to opt out prior to the first email let me know at "thelookingspoon at gmail dot com" (obviously I spelled out the address to prevent spam, you know how email works...) and I will remove you. Replying directly to the email this post should trigger should also go to that email address.

As with all email tools there will be an opt-out link at the footer of each email that is sent out as well, so no need to say no right now ;-)

I've had moments in the last 5 years when I thought it was time to move on to something else, only to realize I just needed a good break.

This isn't one of those times.

This is the last post. A couple of weeks ago I confided in another blogger friend that I was having this inescapable feeling that I wanted end this incredible 5 year journey and do something else.

He told me blogging was a calling, and for most of the 5 years that was true for me. It's not anymore.

I'm not going back to life as it was before TLS, I can't do that. I'll always be compelled to be a voice against the left, I was LONG before this blog and I will continue to be. It just wont be as The Looking Spoon anymore.

This has been a really awesome experience, if for no other reason that I've made a lot of great conservative friends, readers and bloggers alike.

I don't know what's next, but if you're the betting type you can put money on it involving me taking my little online shirt and sticker shop, Culture Correct (hint: check out the banner at the top of this page) and making it into more than it currently is.

I'm not going to say goodbye, because I'm not going away. You can reach me at any of the social links at the top of the screen and by email at "jared at thelookingspoon dot com" or "thelookingspoon at gmail dot com." Both go to my phone, and the first one will likely do a better job of getting my attention since it's used less often.

I want to end this by thanking iOwnTheWorld and The People's Cube for being the inspiration for my becoming an agitprop artist, it gave me the specific direction I kind of needed at the beginning. To John Hawkins of Right Wing News for the partnership that brought many many new people to TLS in its earlier days. To all of the bloggers, big and small, who gave me the time of day with links and sharing the images I created, it truly made my day when you did.

Thank you most of all to all of you who made The Looking Spoon a part of your reading list, or found something here that was too good to not share with your friends and networks. Nobody validated this blog better than you did, and it's that connection that makes ending this so, SO hard to do.

The Looking Spoon is a right-wing, right-of-center, conservative blog that focuses on humor, satire, art, and general commentary. Posts are about the latest news in politics and current events covering topics such as politics, Republicans, Democrats, liberal and progressive lunacy. Other topics include as politicians such as Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Al Gore and pop culture. All posts aim to be funny, witty, sarcastic, satirical, humorous, and biting while striving to also be sharp, incisive and insightful from a right-of-center point of view in an effort to make thelookingspoon.com one of the top conservative humor and satire sites on the web.